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Booker T. Washington

Picturing Black History

… Daniela Edmeier   Hello everyone and welcome to picturing Black History Webinar today brought to you … to demonstrate how sharing our visual pasts can allow our audiences to contextualize and understand the present. So we … articles that our authors discussed today, please visit our website at picturingblackhistory.org. Stay safe and healthy …
DC Police Car in the snow

A Long View of Policing in America

… Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk the history podcast for everyone … workers, this was about maintaining a workforce that was obedient and you know, disciplining them and keeping them in … Wiggins. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website
Turkish soldiers standing over skeletal remains during Armenian Genocide

Armenians, Turks, and the Genocide Question

… April 24, 2015 marks the commemoration of the 100 th anniversary of the Armenian … The result was the physical annihilation of the Armenian communities that had lived in the Anatolian peninsula for … of the legal and historical label “genocide,” and why coming to terms with mass atrocities is so difficult today. …
Ludwig van Beethoven in front of sheet music from his first symphony.

Beethoven’s First Symphony

… the aristocracy-based patronage system, which had sustained composers for generations.  Now, middle-class audiences flocked to public concert halls to applaud the … on the piano to an admiring public, and published several compositions. Among these were his four-movement piano trios …
Press coming from Sochi during the recent Olympic cycle

2/21/14: On Distorting Russia

…                                  Press coming from Sochi during the recent Olympic cycle hasn't … in magazines and newspapers is the result of reporters complaining about hotel facilities, animal rights issues, … taking these articles to heart, a professor of Russian Studies at New York University, Stephen F. Cohen, wants to …
Stock photo of a pen on paper.

History News Service Feeds Popular Hunger for Good History and Good Journalism

… interests in the U.S. textbook publishing business. Liberal commentators and religious libertarians denounced the … in the early twentieth century the Christian Science Committee on Publication in New York continually scoured the … like these are bread and butter for the History News Service (HNS), an informal syndicate of professional …
Protesters during day 14 of Occupy Wall Street

"Class Warfare" in American History

… Politics." Thanks for being on the show Sarah, and welcome.  Sarah Siff   My pleasure. Thanks.  Patrick Potyondy   … wealth to people who had less. And this was a very common thing to talk about. After World War Two, it became … process of writing through that and have your graduate studies, you're a PhD student in the history department here at …
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Best in History Online: The Bowery Boys Podcast

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … Boys Podcast also maintains a blog at boweryboyshistory.com , which serves as an additional resource for listeners, … on NYC history and culture-related events, and links to websites and other resources for more information on their …
Diocletian's Camp in Palmyra

Understanding the Middle East

… Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk produced by Origins, Current Events in … policymakers also seem unable to understand the region's complexities or developed sound sustainable strategies for a … Middle East today? Dr. Jane Hathaway  When a historian studies the Middle East, he or she is entering what's often a …
Marchers for LGBTQ rights

The Debate Over Same-Sex Marriage and LGBTQ Rights

… in recent memory. But with these changes have come many questions and tensions. Is the focus on the … in Modern Family , crime procedurals, or even Levi’s jeans commercials changed the public’s perceptions, and has it … Leticia Wiggins   Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone, …
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Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel after World War II

… world. Ori Yehudai is the Schottenstein Chair in Israel Studies and Assistant Professor in the Department of History at … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Welcome to Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and … is the Saul and Sonia Schottenstein Chair in Israel Studies and assistant professor in the Department of History at …
A long line of migrants in India

Migration and Mobility: Yesterday and Today

… policy in the U.S., Europe, and across the world have become fierce and deeply divisive, to say the least, and will surely continue to dominate politics in the coming years. All the while, lives are in the balance as … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle  Hello, and welcome to Migration and Mobility: Insights from History coming …
The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Ages of Columbus, by David Abulafia Book Cover

The Old World Meets the Neolithic Age

Review of The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Ages of Columbus, by David Abulafia (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008)
… New World, David Abulafia, best known for his work on the medieval Mediterranean, highlights the immediate impact of the … ), the notorious document that the Spanish read to the uncomprehending Indians before seizing their land. These … and the gradual Spanish subjugation of the islands (not completed until 1496) prepared Europeans for their encounter …
Jean Leon Gerome Ferris's 1912 illustration, The First Thanksgiving, 1621

Now, About that First Thanksgiving Dinner…

… are uncertain. The only documentary evidence of the event comes from the journal of Plymouth Colony’s governor, Edward … that the historical evidence of Thanksgiving is not as compelling as the myths that cloud our memories. It’s too … History News Service … Indigenous Communities …

Energy Policy and the Long Transition in America

… You can't read the newspapers or surf the web without coming face to face with the pivotal human problem of energy … as unhealthy to humans and the environment. The U.S. armed services have begun to experiment with "alternative" fuel … fuels are used mostly for transportation and include biodiesel, ethanol, hydrogen, electric, natural gas and …
President Nixon looking at a CIA map in 1970.

Why an Intelligence Inquiry Is Needed

… 11 attacks, Congress is now moving to create a bipartisan commission to investigate intelligence gathering policies … gathering should be coordinated with policymaking bodies and oriented toward problem solving, rather than … and democratization abroad, so that U.S. intelligence services will not be hated and feared, as the CIA has been …
British Fleet Spanish Armada of 1588

1588: the Spanish Armada Still Loses

… finally clashed. Looking beyond the events of 1588 to the complex politics which made war between England and Spain … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Welcome to 1588: The Spanish Armada Still Loses, brought to you … but what really clinched it was the 1000 gold and silver coins, the 12 gold rings, the six gold chains and the 35 …
Border Fence/Wall

Shifting Borders: The Many Sides of U.S.-Mexican Relations

… Jessica Vinas-Nelson  Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … in the history department and global and intercultural studies department, specializing in revolution and social … Viñas-Nelson. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more on our website, …
Robert F Williams and Mao Zedong

China and the Black Liberation Struggle in America

… Mao Zedong to Martin Luther King Jr., China has a long and complex history of interaction with African American … James Watson-Krips  Hello, everyone. Welcome to this discussion with Melvin Barnes, PhD candidates … at Princeton University's Department of East Asian Studies. Today's discussion will center mostly on Melvin's …
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The Global History of HIV

… for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this content do not necessarily … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle  Welcome, everyone, to "The Global History of HIV," brought to … recalling the 38, the 32 point 7 million people who have died from HIV and its related illnesses in the near, the …